Sorry i honestly was confused as to what dog breed was being referred to as i had never seen Doberman abreivated that way. It was a honest question at least at the time.
With that being said I think it is a persons moral obligation to help with rescue in one way or another.
Why would rescuing be a moral issue if rescue is a personal invidual decision?? People who are into well bred dogs for showing and training are not as much into rescue so if that is their thing then I see no reason they should in any way feel responsible for rescuing. If you study rescue vs showing and training you will find that they are diabolically opposed to each other because the rescuers tend to blame breeders as you pointed out and think all breeders and breeding is bad and the show people think rescue folks are opposed to good breeding and lump everything into the puppy mill catagory. A person will follow one or the other and seldom can they walk the fence and successfully do both. I am not referring to a breeder who takes back their own dogs but for breeders it is a question of protecting your dogs from exposure to all kinds of unknowns coming into the property and exposing future puppies and most are not set up with a quarrantine area to guarantee no cross contamination.
For me when an individual rescues a dog it is to fill a need in their home and heart. Rescue organizations are set up to protect a breed and they are always begging for donations as they have a lot of expense. Again we have organizations set up and if they had enough moeny they could rescue more dogs as opposed to individuals who save one dog while the flood gates are still overflowing.
Paint was acutally talking about rescuing as in getting a dog and keeping it for a companion for the rest of its life. That is a wonderful thing in and of itself just as Lovmydobes did.
Then we have rescue organizations that are run under the direction of a board with some level of accountablity.
Now while I know this does not apply to you CRD it is a possibility that I personally find disturbing as I know a lot of dogs are FREE to a good home when someone wants to dump them on craigs list.
But here is the challenge I see and PLEASE understand this does not apply to you but it does open up a whole new challenge - Someone gets a dog off craigs list to "rescue" but with the thought of rehoming the dog. They post on a list and get donations to help with medical bills etc and then pocket that money then turn around and sell the dog for ???? and pocket that money. Because it is a rescue they had no expense, no cropping, and if they may or may not actual neuter or spay the dog that they got covered under donations which may or may not have exceeded the actual cost.
I see it as a whole new scam and way for people who are tight on money making money without much expense. How many people are honest enough to just cover their expenses - then do they send money back to people who donated??? That is why I am opposed to and think people should be very very careful about donating money to indivduals on a list who just have a sad story to tell. Plus most of the time they get reg papers with the dog and can sell it as AKC reg which they can't through a legitamite rescue as the dog will be spayed/neutered first.
Then there is the problem that if you get expenses covered from dontations do you give the dog away??? I beleive if you give a dog away you take a big chance on it not finding a good home because it has no value. so if they sell it what happens to the rest of the money - who do they have to account to??
I just think it opens a whole new kettle of worms. Just look at the people who so willingly and generouly open their pocket books. That is how the AR groups have managed to not only survive but thrive off good people who honestly think they are helping.
Maybe that brings up a whole new thought on rescue - should it be a money making proposition because it could be. There is just so much that the AR groups have done to muddy the waters and confuse JQP who only hears their side of the story in 3 d multi milllion dollar commercials with sad music playing in the background designed to tear your heart out while they pull down million dollar incomes not to mention the money they spend jet setting around the country.
If this idea takes of then what role will forums play in perputating the problem??? will they be responsible if it does turn out to be a scam or can they be held liable???
For these reasons I would hate to see the dog forums just become another way for people to ask for donations to cover rescue expense when there are valid org set up for that and they have an accountablity.. heck someone could ask for donations, posting a picture of some dog that they don't even have. While one person might save one dog it might mean that 5 more could have been taken in had the valid rescue had money. So for me that would be a big turn off and opens a big door for problems as I see it.. I may be very wrong but seriously I doubt it. People use all kinds of good things to do bad things.
I don't think good intentions come from bad actions so for the women to question Paint to me was wrong. It wa snot her right. Rescue is not for everyone and buying reg puppies is not for everyone.
BUT (quote) I understand that all registered breeds have to start somewhere. Heck, how many times did Mr. Dobermann have to cross breed before he perfected our beloved Dobie? My point is this...buy responsively if you're going to buy or don't buy at all. (/quote)
Herr doberman had a specific objective - designer dogs are not trying to create a new breed with a specific purpose. they have no purepose except money with s good sounding sales pitch.
